Terror Group PKK Begins Withdrawal from Türkiye
The terror organisation Kurdistan Workers’ Party (hereinafter: PKK) announced on 26 October 2025, its decision to commence its withdrawal of its fighters from the territory of Türkiye (Anadolu Agency). This operational directive instructs the group’s fighters to relocate to designated bases in northern Iraq, specifically within the Qandil mountains region. The announcement, issued by the...
Policy Paper: Reforming the United Nations
The Background The main problem that the functioning of international law faces is that all state actors have the same legal status without being subject to the power of a superordinate entity. Grounded in the principle of territorial sovereignty, every nation has an independent legal standing, which is not only desirable to ensure the minimum...
A Political Outlook For 2021
Another year has ended and, as always, this occasion is not only used to reflect on the past 365 days, but also to rearrange expectations, set goals and gather new motivation and inspirations. Such a moment of reflexion is very useful from an individual perspective and the year change offers us a representative moment to...
How Does The Ideal School Look Like?
Probably the only factor that separates the human race from other animals is that humans aim to make sense of the world by increasing their knowledge and understanding of the world at a much higher rate. At the same time, this drive for more knowledge is the only relevant end of humanity’s existence and lies...
White, White World –A Racial Perspective on the Founding of Israel
This work is the Bachelor Thesis by our founder Emre Şentürk, submitted in May 2017 at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen. The thesis was submitted within the core module “Thinking the International in Historic Context” as part of the “International Relations/International Organisation” Bachelor programme, and received a passing grade of 3,3/4....
From Sèvres to Lausanne – An Unappreciated Victory?
This work was submitted by our founder, Emre Şentürk, to Prof. Dr. Kaan Renda on 26 December 2016 as part of the study module “Turkish Foreign Policy I” of the International Relations department of the Hacettepe University in Ankara. Almost 100 years after the founding of the Turkish Republic, there is a revived debate about...
